Standard Languages and Language Standards: Greek, Past and Present
is a collection of essays with a distinctive focus and an unusual
range. It brings together scholars from different disciplines, with
a variety of perspectives, linguistic and literary, historical and
social, to address issues of control, prescription, planning and
perceptions of value over the long history of the Greek language,
from the age of Homer to the present day. Under particular scrutiny
are the processes of establishing a standard and the practices and
ideologies of standardization. The diverse points of reference
include: the Hellenistic koine and the literary classics of modern
Greece; lexicography in late antiquity and today; Byzantine Greek,
Pontic Greek and cyber-Greek; contested educational initiatives and
competing understandings of the Greek language; the relation of
linguistic study to standardization and the logic of a standard
language. The aim of this ambitious project is not a comprehensive
chronological survey or an exhaustive analysis. Rather, the editors
have set out to provide a series of informed overviews and
snapshots of telling cases that both illuminate the history of the
Greek language and explore the nature of language standardization
itself. The volume will be important for students and scholars of
the Greek language, past and present, and, beyond the Greek
example, for sociolinguists, historians and social scientists with
interests in the role of language in the construction of
identities.
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